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**Intro:
The information contained within this file should not be considered
100% correct. Where possible information has been taken from
datasheets, however even this info may be incorrect. The datasheets
state what the chip should do, not what they actually do. This is,
compounded further by different revisions of chips.
This document will never be complete, and I have no intention of
finding every datasheet for every chip set. Some of the chip sets
listed are from later systems in the PIII/P4/Athlon era. There are
many websites with information on these chip sets and these entries
will likely not be expanded upon. The focus of this document is early
PC/XT to Pentium chip sets. There are few sites that clearly illu-
strate this information, and how they relate to each other.
I aim to prioritize cataloging significant, rare or otherwise
interesting chip sets.
BTW the reason I wrote all of this down, is so that I could FORGET it.
Basically I needed to free up some RAM. I've a head full of arcane
snippets of information on this subject. I don't want to end up a
crazy old man ranting random disjointed information ("The C&T CS8220
came before the CS8221 you KNOW!") to disinterested passersby, unable
to see how senile I've become. A side benefit, this might be useful to
someone else:-)
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**Definition of a chip set:...
**'chip set', 'chip-set' or 'chipset'?...
**What's not included:...
**Who made the first chip set?
By the criteria of (2.) in 'Definition of a chip set' many sources
state this to be the Chips and Technologies NEAT chip set. I don't
know why this is stated as it is most definitely incorrect. The CS8221
NEW Enhanced AT (NEAT) chip set consisting of the chips;
82C211/82C212/82C215/82C206 was as far as I can establish, first
released sometime in 1986.
C&T itself have an earlier chip set called the CS8220 PC/AT compatible
Chip Set, and consists of the following chips; 82C201/82C202/
82A203/82A204/82A205. It was first available in OCT-85. (see:C&T>
CS8220>Notes for further info.)
That is, AFAIK, the first motherboard chip set from C&T and AFAIK the
worlds first chip set that meets the criteria of (2.). However C&T did
already have on the market their popular EGA chip set, but that isn't
a motherboard chip set.
By the criteria of (1.), IBM, or Intel, see IBM>PC/XT chip set.
Another pre-'86 chipset is the Faraday FE2010. The datasheet includes
a schematic on the very last page dated 11/22/85. This only indicates
the chip set was on paper at that date. An acutal release date has not
been found.
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**A note on VESA support of 486 chipsets....
**Datasheets:...
*_IBM...
*ACC Micro...
*ALD...
*ALi...
*AMD . . . . . . . [no datasheets, some info]...
*Chips & Technologies...
*Contaq . . . . . [no datasheets, some info]...
*Efar Microsystems [no datasheets, some info]...
*ETEQ...
*Faraday...
*Forex . . . . . . [List only, no datasheets found]...
*Intel...
**82395SX Smart Cache 12/17/90
***Notes:...
**82396SX Smart Cache 12/17/90...
**82485 Turbo Cache (and 485Turbocache) c90...
**82489DX Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller 10/12/92...
**82495DX/490DX DX CPU-Cache Chip Set <Sep91...
**82495XP/490XP Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for i860) 06/05/91...
**82496/491 Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for P5 Pentium) 03/22/93...
**82497/492 Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for P54 Pentium) <Nov94...
**82498/493 Cache Controller / Cache RAM (for P54 Pentium) <Nov94...
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**Later chipsets (basic spec):
**440 series:...
**450NX (?) 06/29/98:...
**????? (Profusion) c:99...
**800 series...
*Headland/G2...
*HMC (Hulon Microelectronics)...
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*PC CHIPS/Amptron/Atrend/ECS/Elpina/etc...
*SIS...
**530/5595 (Sinbad) Host, PCI, 3D Graphics & Mem. Ctrl.<11/10/98
***Info:...
***Configurations:...
***Features:
o Supports Intel/AMD/Cyrix/IDT Pentium CPU Host Bus at
66/75/83/95/100 MHz and 2.5/3.3V Bus Interface
− Supports the Pipelined Address of Pentium compatible CPU
− Supports the Linear Address Mode of Cyrix CPU
− 100/100, 95/95, 83/83, 75/75 and 66/66 MHz Synchronous
Host/DRAM clocking configuration
− 100/75, 95/75, 83/66, 66/100 and 66/83 MHz Asynchronous
Host/DRAM clocking configuration
− Supports Host Bus operation for integrated 3D VGA Controller
o Meets PC99 Requirements
o Supports PCI Revision 2.2 Specification
o Integrated Super AGP VGA for Hardware 2D/3D Video/Graphics
Accelerators
− Supports tightly coupled 64 bits 100MHz host interface to VGA
to speed up GUI performance and the video playback frame rate
− Built-in programmable 24-bit true-color RAMDAC up to 230 MHz
pixel clock
− Built-in reference voltage generator and monitor sense circuit
− Supports loadable RAMDAC for gamma correction in high color
and true color modes
− Built-in dual-clock generator
− Supports Multiple Adapters and Multiple Monitors
− Built-in PCI multimedia interface
− Flexible design for shared frame buffer or local frame buffer
architecture
− Shared System Memory Area 2MB, 4MB and 8MB
− Supports SDRAM and SGRAM local frame buffer and memory size up
to 8 MB
− Supports Digital Flat Panel Port for Digital Monitor (LCD Panel)
− Supports DVD H/W Accelerator
o Integrated Second Level ( L2 ) Cache Controller
− Write Back Cache Mode
− Direct Mapped Cache Organization
− Supports Pipelined Burst SRAM
− Supports 256K/512K/1M/2M Bytes Cache Sizes
− Cache Hit Read/Write Cycle of 3-1-1-1
− Cache Back-to-Back Read Cycle of 3-1-1-1-1-1-1-1
− Supports Single Read Allocation for L2 Cache
− Supports Concurrency of CPU to L2 cache and Integrated A.G.P.
VGA master to DRAM accesses
o Integrated DRAM Controller
− Supports up to 3 double sided DIMMs (6 rows memory)
− Supports 8Mbytes to 1.5 GBytes of main memory
− Supports Cacheable DRAM Sizes up to 256 MBytes
− Supports 1M/2M/4M/8M/16M/32M x N for 2-bank or 4-bank SDRAM
− Supports 3.3V DRAM
− Supports Concurrent Write Back
− Supports CAS before RAS Refresh, Self Refresh
− Supports Relocation of System Management Memory
− Programmable CS#, DQM#, SRAS#, SCAS#, RAMWE# and MA Driving
Current
− Option to Disable Local Memory in Non-cacheable Regions
− Entries GART cache to Minimize the Number of Memory Bus Cycles
Required for Accessing Graphical Texture Memory
− Programmable Counters to Ensure Guaranteed Minimum Access Time
for Integrated A.G.P. VGA, CPU, and PCI accesses
− Two Programmable Non-cacheable Regions
− Supports X-1-1-1/X-2-2-2 Burst Write Cycles
− Fully Configurable for the Characteristic of Shadow RAM (640
KBytes to 1 MBytes)
− Shadow RAM in Increments of 16 KBytes Built-in 8 Way
Associative/16
− Supports SDRAM 7/8-1-1-1 Burst Read Cycles
o Provides High Performance PCI Arbiter
− Supports up to 4 PCI Masters
− Supports Rotating Priority Mechanism
- Hidden Arbitration Scheme Minimizes Arbitration Overhead
- Supports Concurrency between CPU to Memory and PCI to PCI
- Supports Concurrency between CPU to 33Mhz PCI Access and 33Mhz
PCI to integrated A.G.P. VGA Access
- Programmable Timers Ensure Guaranteed Minimum Access Time for
PCI Bus Masters, and CPU
o PCI Bus Interface
- Supports 32-bit PCI local bus standard Revision 2.2 compliant
- Integrated write-once subsystem vendor ID configuration register
- Supports zero wait-state memory mapped I/O burst write
- Integrated 2 stages PCI post-write buffer to enhance frame
buffer write performance
- Integrated 256 bits read cache to enhance frame buffer read
performance
- Supports full 16-bit re-locatable VGA I/O address decoding
o Integrated Host-to-PCI Bridge
- Supports Asynchronous PCI Clock
- Translates the CPU Cycles into the PCI Bus Cycles
- Zero Wait State Burst Cycles
- Supports Pipelined Process in CPU-to-PCI Access
- Maximum PCI Burst Transfer from 256 Bytes to 4 Kbytes
- Supports Memory Remapping Function for PCI master accessing
Graphical Window
o Integrated A.G.P. Compliant Target/66Mhz Host-to-PCI Bridge
- Supports Graphic Window Size from 4MBytes to 256MBytes
- Supports Pipelined Process in CPU-to-Integrated 3D A.G.P.
VGA Access
- Supports 8 Way, 16 Entries Page Table Cache for GART to enhance
Integrated A.G.P. VGA Controller Read/Write Performance
- Supports PCI-to-PCI bridge function for memory write from 33Mhz
PCI bus to Integrated A.G.P. VGA
o Integrated Posted Write Buffers and Read Prefetch Buffers to
Increase System Performance
- CPU-to-Memory Posted Write Buffer (CTMFF) with 12QW Deep, Always
Sustains 0 Wait Performance on CPU-to-Memory
- CPU-to-Memory Read Buffer with 4 QW Deep
- CPU-to-PCI Posted Write Buffer with 2 QW Deep
- PCI-to-Memory Posted Write Buffer with 8 QW Deep, Always
Streams 0 Wait Performance on PCI-to/from-Memory Access
- PCI-to-Memory Read Prefetch Buffer with 8 QW Deep
- CPU-to-VGA Posted Write Buffer with 4 QW Deep
o Fast PCI IDE Master/Slave Controller
- Bus Master Programming Interface for Windows 98 Compliant
Controller
- Plug and Play Compatible
- Supports Scatter and Gather
- Supports Dual Mode Operation - Native Mode and Compatibility
Mode
- Supports IDE PIO Timing Mode 0, 1, 2 ,3 and 4
- Supports Multiword DMA Mode 0, 1, 2
- Supports Ultra DMA 33/66
- Two Separate IDE Bus
- Two 16 DW FIFO for PCI Burst Transfers.
o Supports NAND Tree for Ball Connectivity Testing
o 576-Balls BGA Package
o 3.3V Core with mixed 2.5V, 3.3V and 5V I/O CMOS Technology
**540 (Spartan) Super7 2D/3D Ultra-AGP Single C.S.<11/30/99...
**55x SoC (System-on-chip) <03/14/02...
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**Support chips:
**85C206 Integrated Peripheral Controller [no datasheet] ?...
**5595 Pentium PCI System I/O <12/24/97...
**950 LPC I/O <07/16/99...
**Other:...
**PII/III/Pro...
**Athlon etc...
*Symphony...
*TI (Texas Instruments)...
*UMC...
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*VIA...
*VLSI...
*Western Digital...
*Winbond...
*ZyMOS...
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